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Making radio waves in Africa

KRISTINE Pearson graduated from a university in California intending to make money.

“I can’t say I always wanted to help others,” Pearson, who was named by Time Magazine as a Hero of the Environment for 2007, told the Independent on Saturday.

However, her wanderlust was the catalyst to changing that.

“I was an early onset millennial. I wanted to see the world.”

Three decades later, she is the driver behind enhancing community development in Africa through her organisation, Lifeline Energy, providing more than 685000 radios, which

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